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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Officials say an “environmental cause” appears to be behind the recent deaths of 33 reptiles, nearly all of them snakes, at Zoo Knoxville. The animals found dead last week were all housed in the same building in the zoo’s reptile area. Surviving animals were removed and given oxygen. The Knoxville News Sentinel

Former US Vice President Joe Biden spoke at Colgate University on March 24 as part of their Global Leaders series, where he explained how the death of his son, Beau Biden, impacted his decision not to run for president. Following is a transcript of the video. 

Chancellor’s stance hardens despite UK hopes of pressure from Germany’s car industry

A group of feline enthusiasts are raising funds for a project to replace all the advertisements at a Washington train station with photos of cats.

BERLIN — Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who became Germany’s oldest recipient of a doctorate almost 80 years after fleeing the Nazis, has died. She was 104. A specialist in newborn care, Syllm-Rapoport was widely cheered when she passed her oral exam at the University of Hamburg with flying colors at the age of 102 in 2015. Syllm-Rapoport,

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It doesn’t have a waistline, and doesn’t need one. The first time I bought this dress, it didn't fit. It was too big and too long, and I was devastated. After reading this article about Universal Standard, I was chomping at the bit to buy from them. The clothes are fashion-y but not weird, simple but not boring. And it all comes in my size. I returned the dress and moped a little, not sure if I wanted to try again or just write off the brand as yet another company not meant for me. ...

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What started last week as a trickle in Australia looks like turning into a mini avalanche.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende said that Russia and Norway managed to bring an end to the flow of illegal migrants through the Storskog-Borisoglebsky border checkpoint.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Il., says it’s time to reach out to Democrats to fix the system in Washington.

A public servant, Dajin Maurice, told a Mararaba Upper Area Court, Nasarawa State, that his wife, Janet three months’ pregnancy belongs to another man.

MightyTV

Spotify has acquired video discovery startup MightyTV for an undisclosed price, the music streaming company announced on Monday.

The MightyTV app acts a bit like a Tinder for video content. Users swipe through a list of movies or TV shows from video services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO, and the app then suggests which new ones to watch based on your choices. The company had raised $4.25 million in funding, according to CrunchBase.

MightyTV's team will join Spotify as part of the deal. Читать дальше...

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Whole Foods is losing millions of customers to what was once an unthinkable threat: Kroger.

The organic-food chain has lost as many as 14 million customers in the past six quarters, according to Barclays analyst Karen Short.

Most of those customers are instead going to Kroger and probably won't ever go back to Whole Foods, Short said in a recent research note.

"The magnitude of the traffic declines ... is staggering," Short said. "As most retailers know — once traffic has been lost... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES — As a billionaire developer, Donald Trump built casinos, luxe condo towers and lush golf courses. Now, as president, Trump aims to develop perhaps his most ambitious and surely his most contentious project yet: A wall along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. How? At what cost? And who would benefit? Much remains unknown.

The EU's seeming unity at the recent Rome Summit was the result of numerous concessions made by Brussels to disenchanted EU member states. Nonetheless, tensions continue to simmer within the bloc, despite the Roman Declaration draft repeatedly being changed to satisfy all the participants of the meeting.

A gunman in central Florida fatally shot an adult in a home and critically wounded another adult and two children, in what authorities describe as domestic violence, before shooting two innocent bystanders who ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As a billionaire developer, Donald Trump built casinos, luxe condo towers and lush golf courses. Now, as president, Trump aims to develop perhaps his most ambitious and surely his most contentious project yet: A wall along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border....

He could — and should — make the Affordable Care Act great again.

Donald Trump’s initial reaction to the news that his plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act wouldn’t pass the House of Representatives was unusual, to say the least.

“I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do, politically speaking,” he argued in a statement to the press delivered in the Oval Office, “is let Obamacare explode. It is exploding now.”

Presidents fail to accomplish policy goals all the time. Читать дальше...

Last weekend Riga hosted the first pre-party of the Eurovision Song Contest season. Several acts from the 2017 contest participated in event which took place in the Latvian capital for the fourth time. Ruslana, who won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine in 2004, was the guest star along with Justs, who represented Latvia in 2016.

In 1905, brothers Alfred and Albert Stratton became the first people in England to be convicted of murder based on fingerprint evidence. The rest of the law enforcement world took notice.